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...geniuses in the social sciences," says Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein. 'The one man in the world who has come closest to being a Renaissance man," opines Richard Cyert, president of Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU). These were some of the reactions to the surprise award last week of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Economics to Herbert A. Simon, 62, a professor of psychology and computer science at CMU. Choosing Simon may be an attempt by the Nobel committee to broaden the basis for the economics prize, which has come under muted criticism for being too narrowly focused...
Outside help is available, however. Northwestern, Syracuse and Johns Hopkins have all recently won large grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to hire faculty and develop programs for their general education experiments. A Mellon spokesman says the foundation has no set policy of helping curriculum experiments, but considers aiding institutions that present strong educational plans...
STOCKHOLM--The Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday awarded the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Science to Herbert Simon, a 62-year-old professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, making him the seventh American to receive the economic prize in 10 years...
...Ph.D. in philosophy was once a oneway ticket to an ivy turret. No more. With declining college enrollments, fewer faculty openings, low starting salaries and little chance for tenure, college teaching has lost much of its allure. Even worse, a Mellon Foundation study estimated that by 1990 the U.S. will have a surplus of 60,000 Ph.D.'s in the humanities...
...What Radcliffe hopes to achieve with the help of the Mellon foundation grant is a multiplier effect, increasing the contribution that the college's unique research resources will make to scholarship, faculty and curriculum development, and policy-making," Horner added...